"I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."
- Anonymous
Do not take a single moment of this life for granted.
The good and the bad, the challenges and the joys, the struggles and the victories, the defeats and the triumphs!
They all add up and blend into what we call the story of our lives...
Do not rush to the ending just yet!!!
Savor each chapter, even the painful ones, because those too shall pass!!!!
And having overcome the hurdles and obstacles in our way, we will emerge stronger, more grateful and understanding, and confident that we can handle ANYTHING life throws in our way!!
Embrace the challenges and have FAITH that all will be ok when the house lights come on!!!
Because it all will....!!!!!
Stay Strong!!!
The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention,
how to fall down into the grass,
how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed,
how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver, from The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays. (Beacon Press, 2008.)
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"Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read this each night before bed and before you take on your day!!!
No matter what we do on a daily basis, no matter the mistakes, poor judgements, missteps, or wrong choices, we can always fix it!!
The beauty of life, especially in this amazing country, is that every day that the sun rises we can begin again from scratch.
The past is just that ...it is over, done with, and should be discarded.
Do not let the past linger and effect what you want to accomplish in life!!
Fix whatever it is you need to fix and start fresh today. You cannot let the past define what you are and can be!!!
Remember, WE control what we are to become and WE control the amount of happiness and joy we let into our lives!!!
Start today and Stay Strong!!!!
"Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity."
- Mother Teresa
Stay Strong!!
Grain must be ground to make bread. (Isaiah 28:28)
"Combat comes before victory.
If God has chosen special trials for you to endure, be assured He has kept a very special place in His heart just for you.
A badly bruised soul is one who is chosen."
From Streams in the Desert, L. B. Cowman.
Stay Strong and stay in the battle!!!
"When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, and the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then."
—Blaise Pascal
What a terrific and ponderous question!!!
If we really step back and look at this big picture, and realize the ridiculously short period of time we are on this earth, we should not ever fear doing anything at all!!!
It is such a blip in time that all we should aspire to do is to help each other get through the battles, the joyous events,,to live to fight another day and just strive to be a better person each day...even in small measures!!!!
Re-read the quote above...and go do what it is you fear to do!! What you have put off for later, do it now and do it in complete confidence!!!
The clock is ticking and later is NOW!!!!
What are you waiting for?? Do it!!
Stay Strong!!!
